Actress Soundarya Biography
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K. S. Sowmya (18 July 1972– 17 April
2004), better known by her stage name Soundarya, was an Indian actress who
worked predominantly in Telugu films in addition to Kannada and Tamil films. In
2002, she received the National Film Award for Best Feature Film as producer
for the Kannada film Dweepa. She has also received three Nandi Awards, two
Karnataka State Film Awards for Best Actress and several Filmfare Awards South
for her performances in films such as Ammoru (1994), Pavitra Bandham (1996),
Anthahpuram (1998), Raja (1999), Doni Saagali (1998), Dweepa (2002), and
Apthamitra (2004). She was one of the highest-paid actresses in Telugu cinema
and acted in more than 100 films in a span of 12 years. Soundarya was popularly
referred as "Savitri of modern Telugu cinema".
Personal Life and Education
Soundarya was born in Mulbagal and
brought up in Bangalore, Karnataka. Her parents are K. S. Sathyanarayana and
Manjula Her father was a Kannada film writer-producer. She discontinued her
M.B.B.S. after her first year in Bangalore. Soundarya's birthdate has been
reported inconsistently by the media. While several sources indicate the
birthdate as 18 July 1972.
On 27 April 2003, she married G. S.
Raghu, a software engineer by profession.
Early Career
Soundarya's first movie was the Kannada
film Gandharva in 1992. In the same year, she acted in the Telugu movie Raithu
Bharatham, with Krishna, directed by Tripuraneni Sriprasad alias Varaprasad.
She acted in more than 100 movies, predominantly in Telugu, in a span of 12
years. Telugu actor Venkatesh has described her as "a thorough actress in
Indian Cinema".
She began with lead roles in Kannada,
her mother tongue, and went on to become the most popular actress in Telugu
films. Her first film in Telugu was Rajendrudu Gajendrudu, directed by S. V.
Krishna Reddy. Real commercial recognition came to her with Hello Brother
(1994), directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana, in which she starred alongside
Nagarjuna and Ramya Krishna. She played an award-winning role in Ammoru,
directed by Kodi Ramakrishna, starring alongside Ramya Krishna and Suresh and
played the role of Bhavani, a devotee of Goddess Ammoru. She had eleven
releases in 1995. In Tamil, she got major acclaim for her debut film Ponnumani,
opposite Karthik and Sivakumar for playing the role of a mentally disabled
person.
Philanthropy
Soundarya had opened 3 schools for orphaned children in Bangalore, in the name of her father. After Soundarya's death, her mother Manjula started more schools, institutions and orphanages under the name "Amarsoundarya Vidyalayas" in Bangalore.
Death
On 17 April 2004, Soundarya died in an aircraft crash along with her brother Amarnath while travelling to Karimnagar from Bangalore during an election campaign to support Bharatiya Janata Party, which she had joined that year.
The aircraft, a Cessna 180 owned by Agni
Aerosports, took off at 11:05 a.m. and turned west before crashing on the
campus of the Gandhi Krishi Vigyan Kendra of the University of Agricultural
Sciences. It had reached only a height of 100 feet (30 m) and burst into
flames. B. N. Ganapathi, one of the two persons working on the experimental
fields of the university, who rushed to the aircraft to save the occupants,
said the plane wobbled before the crash.
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